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Drawing, Mount Katahdin, Maine
This is a Drawing. It was created by Frederic Edwin Church. It is dated 1852–1853 and we acquired it in 1917. Its medium is oil and graphite on paperboard. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.
Writing about one of Church’s treks to Mount Katahdin, his traveling companion Theodore Winthrop jokingly remarked on Church’s addiction to glorious sunsets. This dazzling oil sketch, from the artist’s first Katahdin trip in 1852, which captures the mountain with radiant clouds casting a red glow in the lake below, was developed into a small exhibition canvas of 1853.
Wall Label from exhibition, "Frederic Church, Winslow Homer, and Thomas Moran: Tourism and the American Landscape," Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, New York, NY.
This object was
donated by
Louis P. Church.
It is credited Gift of Louis P. Church.
- Frieze (USA)
- machine-printed paper.
- Gift of Paul F. Franco.
- 1938-50-16
Its dimensions are
23.8 × 30.3 cm (9 3/8 × 11 15/16 in.)
It has the following markings
Stamped: in black ink, verso lower center, L.457c
Cite this object as
Drawing, Mount Katahdin, Maine; Frederic Edwin Church (American, 1826–1900); USA; oil and graphite on paperboard; 23.8 × 30.3 cm (9 3/8 × 11 15/16 in.); Gift of Louis P. Church; 1917-4-323-c
This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibition Frederic Church, Winslow Homer & Thomas Moran: Tourism and the American Landscape.
